Sentence examples for verbal use from inspiring English sources

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Avoid this jargony verbal use of "reference".

The Baghdad briefer's verbal use of "highest levels" went beyond what the intelligence community had suggested.

In other words, the English verbal use is semantically similar to the adjectival use.

But a degree marker is not obligatory with stative EPs, if the verbal use is to be stressed14.

The Chinese verbal use, is more accurately translated normatively as "to guide", "to recommend, advocate, acknowledge, endorse", etc.

To stress on a verbal use, the examples with a transitive EP (such as 羨慕 xianmu "envy" in 15 and others in 17b, 19b) may occur without the degree marker 很 hen.

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Is 'speak' the right way to translate these verbal uses of dao?

Note that the instance of 给 gei which occurs in 12 is a main verb meaning "give," while the instances of gei in 13 and 14 are the non-verbal use of gei to mark indirect object arguments of the main verbs fa "send" and song "send".

Successful manipulations include competing task type (visuospatial vs. verbal) and use of a cognitive coping strategy.

Verbal autopsies use a structured, standardised questionnaire to determine probable cause of death [ 12].

Autistic children who are verbal may use a flat or monotone voice.

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